7.8 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.074 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.1%
Internet Explorer is prone to a denial
of service vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800863");
script_version("2024-02-19T05:05:57+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-19 05:05:57 +0000 (Mon, 19 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-08-11 07:36:16 +0200 (Tue, 11 Aug 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2668");
script_name("Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Document DoS Vulnerability (Aug 2009)");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_ms_ie_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("MS/IE/EXE/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to cause
Denial of Service in the context of an affected application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Internet Explorer version 6.x to 6.0.2900.2180 and 7.x to
7.0.6000.16473.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw exists via an XML document composed of a long series
of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags and it leads to CPU consumption.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Internet Explorer is prone to a denial
of service vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
ieVer = get_kb_item("MS/IE/EXE/Ver");
if(!isnull(ieVer))
{
if(version_in_range(version:ieVer, test_version:"6.0", test_version2:"6.0.2900.2180") ||
version_in_range(version:ieVer, test_version:"7.0", test_version2:"7.0.6000.16473")) {
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}
}